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Efforts to find a treatment for Alzheimer's disease have been disappointing so far. But there's a new generation of drugs in the works that researchers think might help not only Alzheimer's patients, but also people with Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders. more...

Participants at July's National Senior Games share their motivations.
How can you be over the hill if you can still run up the hill? That’s the lesson we all can learn from George Etzweiler. Last month, Etzweiler, 95, became the oldest person to run up Mount Washington, the highest peak in the northeastern United States, in a daunting 7.6-mile uphill foot race called the Mount Washington Road Race.more...

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If the saying, “Time flies when you’re having fun,” holds true, we must be having a lot more fun as we age. Time certainly seems to zip by as the years roll on. Interestingly, this time warp is not all in our imagination, says Dr. Allen Towfigh, medical director, New York Neurology & Sleep Medicine …

I’ve made it off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Staten Island, the climax of New York City’s 40-mile, 5 Boro Bike Tour. In the last six hours I’ve seen more of the city than I have in the 34 years I’ve lived here. After crossing the official finish line, I slow to a stop and take …

She’s back. My daughter, who graduated college in May, has joined the more than 20 million Millennials returning home to live. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 30 percent of young adults ages 18 to 34 live with their parents. Driving that trend is the unemployment, and under-employment, of many Millennials, who were hard hit …

Do you fit this portrait? You are a 49-year-old woman caring for a 69-year-old female relative, most likely your mother. If you have an outside job, you do that work nearly 35 hours a week. You’ve been caring for mom for four years, about 24 hours each week. You are more likely than not to …